Wessex820Winching(FAAM)


Aircraft History:

  • First Flight 20/12/62.
  • Withdrawn 31/12/89. 
  • Was stored in the open at the Fleet Air Arm Museum, Nowra NSW in 2002/3. 
  • Currently at the Vietnam Veterans Museum, Newhaven, Phillip Island, Victoria. Was under restoration however with the arrival of Wessex N7-221 it was disassembled and went into storage. Reported seen being taken to a scrap yard in Dandenong, Vic 11/2014 Bare shell offered for sale on Ebay 12/2014
  • Purchased by Dick Winterburn and moved to his property at Launching Place, Vic.

Aircraft Images:

Wessex820Wollongong(FAAM)